Hardware accelerated segmentation of complex volumetric filament networks

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 670-681

  Mayerich, David ^a   Keyser, John ^a  

^a Texas AandM University

Author keywords

Microscopy; Nneuron; Segmentation; Tracking; Vessel

Indexed keywords

MICROSCOPY; NNEURON; SEGMENTATION; TRACKING; VESSEL;

VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

FILAMENTS (LAMP);

FIBRIN;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA BASE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; FIBRIN; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MICE; MICROSCOPY; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 67649366402     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.196     Document Type: Article

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